to be with us for awhile. we will start our forecast animation at 5:00 on thursday morning. the beginning of rush hour on thursday. it will be mainly dry with a little rain developing in parts of the north bay and northern sonoma county and up into mendocino county. as we set the rain in motion you can see that during the day on thursday the north bay is better organized and more widespread. it remains generally in the north bay though for most of the daytime hours and thofer -- and then we will see the rain spreading overnight to friday morning. by 5:00 on friday morning, the beginning of rush hour we will see rain across all of the bay area. lots of wet weather. it will be a mess on friday morning. if you are commuting that hour keep that in mind. you may need some extra time. we will have some showers trailing through. the wet weather will be with us for awhile. we will be looking at rainfall totals possibly up to 4 inches in the north bay mo ntains and other parts of the bay area. in the sierra, winter sto